On Mon 2008-Sep-29 19:32, Richard Webb (1:116/901) wrote to Roger Nelson:

 RW> I'd bet somebody had a gas station on generator power.  Iirc the 
 RW> truck stop in SLidell was on generator power still two months 
 RW> after the storm.

Probably.  I wouldn't ask him now becasue too much water has gone under the
bridge (literally).

 RW> Oh yah it does, all those trees.  We were far enough out of 
 RW> sLidell that at night back there where we lived without lights 
 RW> from our house or neighbors' houses you wouldn't see a thing  Ah, Broad and Washington.  A really nice area at one time. 

 RW> YOu could tell that, but it's sure gone to hades in a handbasket 
 RW> these days .  Was a good fresh sea food place up there I used 
 RW> to stop at.  i"d come back from my work at the hospital and stop 
 RW> by there for fresh seafood.  PRetty ratty neighborhood these days 
 RW> though.

Times were very good even through the war years when I was growing up
there.  It got a little rougher after my father died in 1941.  Fortunately,
my mother's side of the family was a close-knit group and looked after
their relatives, otherwise, I wouldn't want to even speculate on what would
have happened.

RN> Employees nowadays are throwaways, I'm sad to say. 

 RW> YEp, that's the way it goes, personnel, the replaceable commodity 
 RW> .

Little wonder there is no more loyalty on either side.  It's all dog eat dog now.


Regards,

Roger 
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